The Battle of Askelon

Trifo captured the elephants and gained control of Antioch. Simon his brother he made governor from the ladder of tire to the borders of Egypt. When Jonathan heard that the officers of Demetrius had come to Qadesh in Galilee with a large army intending to remove him from office, he went to meet them but left his brother Simon in the country. He removed them from there, took possession of the city and set a garrison over it. Then they asked him to grant them terms of peace and he did so. But he broke his word about all that he had promised and he became estranged from Jonathan and did not repay the favors which Jonathan had done him but oppressed him greatly.